24/X. 1922

To the Secretaries on Duty at Sessions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense

You are instructed to watch strictly that private conversations do not take place during sessions, and to stop those who are conversing 489.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*

written in the hand of L. A. Fotieva

and signed by V. I. Lenin

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the text,